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What the actual heck is going on in this country right now?

Our democracy is facing a 5-alarm inferno. We have an avowed arsonist with a stockpile of gasoline and flamethrowers telling us explicitly each day what he鈥檚 going to burn. If this were a remake, critics would be howling that it was too over-the-top frightening and real.

Yet what are seemingly otherwise rational groups and institutions doing? They are aiming their fire hoses at the house across that street that isn鈥檛 on fire.

Let鈥檚 start with Democrats who cannot stop hating the current firefighter already on the scene who has a track record of putting out this fire before. Poll after poll shows Democrats moaning about his age or daydreaming about another candidate.

You know who had many different candidates and still picked the one nearly as old as the sitting President?! The team that鈥檚 cheering the fascism flames.

And then there are the Democrats who are now actively campaigning against President Biden.

鈥淗ey, Democrats, you鈥檙e losing and can鈥檛 afford to be uncommitted,鈥� reads earlier this week.

Thousands of Democratic primary voters now apparently think that unless President Biden can fix a crisis that has been going on for thousands of years in the next week, they aren鈥檛 voting for him.

You know who for sure won鈥檛 fix the crisis in Gaza? The guy who wants to be a day-one dictator and who just said Israel needs to 鈥渇inish the problem.鈥� You get one guess who he thinks that problem here is?

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Can we also talk for a minute about the runaways? We literally have a former Democratic congressman from Seattle who is now hiding out in France. was a liberal lion around here and in DC for a long time. Now he鈥檚 watching his neighbor’s chickens and writing strongly worded emails from the European countryside. Thanks, Dude. Big help.

As for our trusted institutions? The Supreme Court doesn鈥檛 even count these days. Congress can鈥檛 agree that we should protect for people wanting to start families.聽 And the media? Well is going on week three now with its wall-to-wall coverage of Biden鈥檚 age. And when it did run a story profiling Biden supporters this week the paper of record in this country called them lonely and bewildered.

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Finally, can we talk about the American public as a whole? Have you seen these new polls saying people have forgotten most of the racist, misogynistic and vile things the last guy said and did during his 4 years in the White House? Republicans remember only that the stock market went up, and Democrats vaguely recall being outraged a lot by what they can鈥檛 recall. As for swing voters, honestly, I鈥檓 confused about how they can 鈥渟wing鈥� between the two options anyway: do you like democracy or not?

So, here we are, eight months away from an election that will determine the future of this Republic, and we are all actively playing with fire.

Travis Mayfield is a fill-in host and commentator on 成人X站 Newsradio.

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